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Monday, December 20, 2010

Baking With Dorie: Sablés

I love Sablés - especially chocolate ones. But since we're baking World Peace Cookies next & they're almost Sablés-like (and may I mention they are the best cookies, ever!), I decided not to tinker with this recipe too much and wait to get my chocolate fix next time.

So I went ahead with the spice version suggested by Dorie Greenspan & while I was fumbling around in my kitchen cabinets looking for coarse sugar, I came across a packet of peppermint candy & thought what fun it would be to roll these cookies in crushed candy . . forgetting the fact that the candy would melt in the oven . . . and so 20 minutes later I was scraping all of this from the bottom of the cookies . .

Just remind me to stick to the recipe next time!

That said, the cookie dough was slightly tricky. I haven't made this kind of cookie in a while & Dorie's instructions said to not over-mix the dough. So I was over-cautious but then I was using a hand-held mixer so I had to beat just slightly longer than I was supposed to, and my resulting cookie-dough was just a little smoother than it was probably meant to be.

I divided the dough and used just one half to make cookies this morning. They're really good: buttery (though not very crumbly because I figure I overmixed the dough), sandy, and taste somewhat like a snickerdoodle. But since I'm not very fond of snickerdoodles, I have a feeling I would have loved the lemon version more and intend to try it out some time between now and the next BWD challenge.

13 comments:

I'm with you I love sables and I love playing with recipes save for things I bake since I am never confident that small changes won't wreck the chemistry ( i will never learn the lesson that cutting down the sugar can have disastrous results) These look great and a perfect holiday nibble!

And now i totally love Sables too , and its my first time with Sables!Actually i did ,make somethin once , dat were sables , but nothing like these!Oh so good!

Oh im soo looking forward to the World cookies too!Oh am sorry for the crushed candy:-(but sables look oh so good!Way way good!and i totally am in love with these melt in mouth goodness, will put up the post asap , coz need to get the pics up:-)Thannkxx for the link , didn know which one was Laurie's:-(